Displaying Currently Bound Buttons in game

[Aerisetta]

Hello me again lol

I'd like to ask if it's possible to display the currently bound key inside the game

For example, I want to teach the player that they need to press the attack button.
Let's say the X button is currently bound as the attack button

On screen, I will say Press <X>

if they changed the keybind to J, then it will be
Press <J>

This will really help players to navigate the controls at the beginning of the game. Thanks!

Ideally this works to show proper Xbox buttons too (this is actually a requirement by steam if you want to say your game supports controllers)

 

[DCurrent]

I need to check. You can't read the save file, which is where that's done, but if the version you have is after I added command capture that might be a way you can go.

Which build are you using?

DC

 

[Aerisetta]

I need to check. You can't read the save file, which is where that's done, but if the version you have is after I added command capture that might be a way you can go.

Which build are you using?

DC

v4 build 7612

 

[Aerisetta]

Hi @DCurrent
just checking in on this

 

[Aerisetta]

I just had an idea

would it be possible that during the setting of buttons by the player, a globalvar gets set

for example if Attack1 button is set to U
globalvar attack1button = "U"

for example if Attack1 button is set to X
globalvar attack1button = "X"

then i can read the globalvar and use that to bring up the key prompts.

possible?

 

[DCurrent]

I just had an idea

would it be possible that during the setting of buttons by the player, a globalvar gets set

for example if Attack1 button is set to U
globalvar attack1button = "U"

for example if Attack1 button is set to X
globalvar attack1button = "X"

then i can read the globalvar and use that to bring up the key prompts.

possible?

No - or I would have already told you to do it. Not without learning about Filestreams to keep the values consistent. The engine saves key config - so what happens next time you open the game and don't re-config manually again to apture the keys? Global vars won't do it, because those only get loaded through a save game.

DC